Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand Inc.
Item of Interest

1895 Pictorial Design Competition Essays

Design on thin card (91x141mm), watercolour. The artist has written brief description of the scenes on the reverse.

E01 - E11

The essays are described top-down, left to right. Frame colour listed below, centres all multi-colour.

1d carmine 18x22mm Huka Falls	2d blue 18x22mm Mitre Peak, Milford Sound	2½d bright purple 18x22mm Mts. Ruapehu & Tongariro
3d green 18x22mm Dusky Bay, Fiordland	4d orange-yellow 18x22mm Shakespeare Head	5d greenish blue 18x22mm Queen Charlotte Sound
6d chestnut 18x22mm Lake Pukaki	8d reddish lilac 18x22mm Mt. Egmont	1/- red-brown 18x22mm French Pass
2/- ochre 18x22mm Planting of the British Flag (at Akaroa?)		5/- violet, lavender 18x22mm Mt. Cook

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